Meaning of Sweatbox | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
2. A jail cell.
   US, slang
3. A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.
   UK, slang
4. A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
5. A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
   slang
6. The room where a scene is reviewed.
7. The review process that takes place in a sweat box.

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Examples

“Australia Post has been accused of endangering staff with "sweatbox" uniforms and restricting earlier starts to save money.”

“They shoved me in the back of a police van and started driving to the cop shop. I was sitting in the sweatbox, wondering how the Dibble had got onto me so quickly, when I heard a voice from another section of the van say, 'Are you P from Macclesfield?'”

“[…] she was finally hustled into a sweatbox, as prisoners and prison staff called it, and was off to meet her new home for the foreseeable future.”

“In the summer of 1945, one young boy died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox, a popular corrective at that time.”

“Don't step in the wrong spot You will gеt caught When you step in the swеatbox They'll make you talk”

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